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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | 11:51am
Bits and Pieces
News stories too short to get their own pages
Here are some stories you may have missed over the last few days…
As a follow-up to a story we posted about the US v Jones case: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that police are NOT allowed to place GPS tracking devices on your car without a warrant. The decision was unanimous. Score one point for freedom.
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Have you seen the new ad for Wheat Thins that uses the family guy cast? Very clever advertising. They repeat the product name for 30 seconds, and Family Guy fans will immediately like the ad.
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Warren Buffett, ‘Oracle of Omaha’ and world’s third richest man sent a video greeting to the Chinese People as they celebrated their New Year. Buffett is seen playing a ukulele and singing ‘I’ve been working on the railroad’, an obvious reference to his $34 billion purchase of the Burlington Northern Railroad. Buffett is practically a rock star over there, for his beliefs in value investing and frugal living.
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US Senator Rand Paul, son of Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul and the next generation of American Libertarianism was detained yesterday by the TSA at a Nashville airport. Paul was in a dust up when he argued against intrusive searches at the airport. He can afford to be brazen: under the US constitution he CANNOT be arrested while Congress is in session.
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